Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Saturdays with Tiffany Tifney Hobbs here until seven k i
Speaker 2: AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We
Speaker 2: just had a spirited, beautiful, informative, empowering conversation with Mary L.
Speaker 3: Hemingway.
Speaker 2: You know her from movies like Lipstick and movies like
Speaker 2: Personal Best, But what you may not know is that
Speaker 2: she has her own story and she is very in
Speaker 2: control of that story. It deals with a lot of
Speaker 2: trauma and mental health awareness, and she's on a mission
Speaker 2: to help others embrace what they've gone through and hopefully
Speaker 2: not allow that to color who they are or where
Speaker 2: they go. And she has a new embodiment program called
Speaker 2: Return of the Queen. What an apply named program? And
Speaker 2: you can sign up for that by visiting Maryelle's Instagram
Speaker 2: or Facebook, both of which are under her name Maryelle
Speaker 2: Hemingway on Instagram and Facebook. And if you comment Queen
Speaker 2: or rise on her post, any post, she said she'll
Speaker 2: see it because she mans her social media. No social
Speaker 2: media management for her. No, it's one on one right
Speaker 2: there with Marielle Hemingway. She's giving you access and she
Speaker 2: hopes to be able to get you to become a
Speaker 2: participant in her retreat in this embodiment program.
Speaker 3: Really really cool.
Speaker 2: And if you missed any part of that interview, that conversation,
Speaker 2: this entire show, you can definitely go to featured segments
Speaker 2: on the KFIAM six forty dot com website and it
Speaker 2: will be posted later this evening, but definitely by tomorrow,
Speaker 2: and you can catch up on all Things Saturday with Tiffany.
Speaker 2: And I would love if you did that, because I really, truly,
Speaker 2: truly do love that you listen. I love the feedback
Speaker 2: that we get online. I love the talkbacks, and I
Speaker 2: think we have a talkback now, Raoul. Right, someone who
Speaker 2: had something to say in line with Mary L. Hemingway's
Speaker 2: conversation Ready.
Speaker 4: About thirty years ago, I was with Bill Murray. We
Speaker 4: were playing golf with the Dalai Lama and he said,
Speaker 4: bless you, my son, you'll get a hole in one.
Speaker 4: So it's a par six and off the tea I
Speaker 4: hit a hole in one and the Dalai Lama he's awesome,
Speaker 4: he called it man. The Dalai Lama. Me and Bill
Speaker 4: Murray was playing with the Dalai Lama.
Speaker 2: We'd have no way to verify the validity of that claim.
Speaker 2: Sounds true to me, sounds true to I mean, who
Speaker 2: doesn't play golf with one Bill Murray and two the
Speaker 2: Dalai Lama himself. I think one in four people have
Speaker 2: had that experience, and he is one. So we just
Speaker 2: had a celebrity leave a talkback pretty much what's his name?
Speaker 3: Let me check, I think we have his name.
Speaker 2: We have people call into the show leave talkbacks who
Speaker 2: were just you know, something.
Speaker 3: Special, Brad. That was Brad Williamson.
Speaker 2: Brad, Brad, I would love to hear more stories about
Speaker 2: you and his holiness or you and Bill Murray for sure,
Speaker 2: So hit that talkback again, Brad.
Speaker 3: Just keep hitting the talkback.
Speaker 2: You just just flood our app or the app with
Speaker 2: all of your stories, because we're going to turn this
Speaker 2: into a segment, I imagine just Saturdays with Brad. There we go,
Speaker 2: we have a whole new segment. But before we get
Speaker 2: to that, we're going to take a deeper dive into
Speaker 2: what's going on with Los Angeles' fireworks program and problem.
Speaker 2: I should say it's a programs around the city, programs
Speaker 2: around the region, but definitely a problem, not a problem
Speaker 2: just this year. It's been a problem historically for a
Speaker 2: very long time, but it seems to be getting worse
Speaker 2: and worse after year. Before we do that, let me
Speaker 2: just give you a quick update. There's an officer involves
Speaker 2: shooting that was reported around three forty five pm in
Speaker 2: the Exposition Park area of Los Angeles. Let's right there
Speaker 2: off of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Western, just north
Speaker 2: of Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard. King Boulevard is what
Speaker 2: you may know it as there's a park there and
Speaker 2: an officer responded to something and there was an officer
Speaker 2: involved shooting in which the officer was shot and transported
Speaker 2: to a local hospital where his condition is unknown at
Speaker 2: this time. But the suspect in the shooting was detained
Speaker 2: was arrested. We don't have much more information than that,
Speaker 2: but as soon as we do, I'll make sure that
Speaker 2: you know. And of course we're following what's happening in
Speaker 2: Texas with this Guadalupe River overflowing and unfortunately killing at
Speaker 2: least forty three people, about one third of which our children,
Speaker 2: who were attending a summer camp up there in the
Speaker 2: mountains in this area of Texas. Kerr County, Texas to
Speaker 2: be specific. And officials are they're looking, they're searching, because
Speaker 2: there are They say, I believe hundreds, if not more missing,
Speaker 2: hundreds if not more missing, And a Texas official says, quote,
Speaker 2: we're in a marathon. They say, this is going to
Speaker 2: be on going. It's a horrible situation out there. And
Speaker 2: as I'm watching CNN and other local outlets in Texas
Speaker 2: and outlets here carrying the story, there are visuals of
Speaker 2: people in trees, clinging to trees, and people trying to
Speaker 2: rescue people in rising water. And this is just catastrophic,
Speaker 2: and the number of dead continues to rise and likely
Speaker 2: will likely will. This is Kurville, Texas, just earlier today.
Speaker 2: So at least forty six dead, including fifteen children, and
Speaker 2: that number, it just literally shot up in the last hour.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get into this growing problem of fireworks
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles. Raoul, if I may come to you,
Speaker 2: you've grown up here in the Southland, and Nikki you're
Speaker 2: there in the studio. You're you're new to La so
Speaker 2: I'll come to you in a bit. But Raoul, you
Speaker 2: grew up here in southern California right where exactly Ontario, Ontario. Okay,
Speaker 2: So in Ontario, would you say that there's a you know,
Speaker 2: an illegal fireworks problem.
Speaker 3: People just have these fireworks everywhere.
Speaker 5: Well in Ontario would say it was pretty well controlled,
Speaker 5: because I had one one time they took away my
Speaker 5: fireworks that I had. The fire department showed up and
Speaker 5: confiscated my brand new box of fireworks that my stepdad
Speaker 5: bought me.
Speaker 3: Obviously was I was like a kid. I was like
Speaker 3: sixteen years.
Speaker 2: Wait wait rewind rewind rewind So you okay, so step dad,
Speaker 2: we don't want to implicate him.
Speaker 3: I think the Statute of Limitations is out of the
Speaker 3: way though. But he got you, He got.
Speaker 2: You fire works. Yeah, and you had them, You had
Speaker 2: them at your home. How did the fire department find out?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 5: We were lighting them in the backyard.
Speaker 3: It was fourth of July.
Speaker 5: Shame, I know, and you know he was there and
Speaker 5: they rolled up on us and they confiscated like at
Speaker 5: least one hundred and fifty bucks worth of fireworks. And
Speaker 5: you know, now that's like two things. You know, it
Speaker 5: was probably double that at this point. But yeah, that
Speaker 5: was and after that, I never really ever did that again.
Speaker 5: Like I was like, I'm not wasting my money. And
Speaker 5: getting it taken away. Forget that right.
Speaker 2: Okay, So when they came, and it's interesting that the
Speaker 2: fire department responded because we I think we have an
Speaker 2: you know, an idea that if you call, then they
Speaker 2: will come. Let's just say it's a really bad problem
Speaker 2: in your neighborhood, or there's something that is at risk
Speaker 2: of being set on fire. Whatever, you know, the risk is.
Speaker 2: People think if you call, they'll come. But in many instances,
Speaker 2: law enforcement is just they don't have the resources, they're
Speaker 2: they're short staffed, or they're responding obviously to other calls,
Speaker 2: or they don't see it as important enough and they
Speaker 2: don't come out.
Speaker 3: They actually came out to you. Were you cited at all?
Speaker 5: Do you remember just confiscated? Well, I was telling you
Speaker 5: Mo this story too. I remember back then also same
Speaker 5: my stepdad getting pulled over and being intoxicated and being
Speaker 5: let go with the ticket. Different times, yeah, way different times.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I think it was a neighbor. I believe
Speaker 5: it was a neighbor called hey, the guy next door
Speaker 5: is blowing up stuff, please come and take away his stuff,
Speaker 5: and they came. Good neighbor, Yeah, yeah, you know, and
Speaker 5: adult now as an adult I understand. And now I
Speaker 5: lived over by you up until recently. A couple moved
Speaker 5: last year and in Ktown area. That area that's oh,
Speaker 5: I mean, it's very route. It crazy, it's it's the
Speaker 5: Middle East, like you can't even describing it does not
Speaker 5: give it justice as to how horrible it is.
Speaker 3: It doesn't. It doesn't.
Speaker 2: And i'm, you know, just to speak about my experience
Speaker 2: really quickly. Growing up, I lived in the suburbs, and
Speaker 2: so you know, it wasn't uncommon to buy these fireworks
Speaker 2: sets from, you know, one of those little local stands.
Speaker 2: Everybody saw the stands in their neighborhood until they started
Speaker 2: obviously outlawing them.
Speaker 3: But you know, you would go to.
Speaker 2: A stand, and I'm sure there are some people nodding
Speaker 2: along like, yeah, of course there's a stand. You spend
Speaker 2: you know, twenty five thirty dollars. I don't know what
Speaker 2: it is today because I haven't done it in forever.
Speaker 2: I imagine a lot more. But you go and you get
Speaker 2: the sparklers, and you have the little ones that spin
Speaker 2: on the ground and shoot out the little sparks. You
Speaker 2: might have the bottle rockets that are are you know,
Speaker 2: in the boxes. Everything is very contained, and the adults
Speaker 2: were the ones lighting.
Speaker 3: The kids could.
Speaker 2: Hold the sparklers if you were above a certain age,
Speaker 2: lest you poke your eye out. Nobody wanted to go
Speaker 2: to the emergency room on fourth of July, and luckily
Speaker 2: we were able to avoid that sort of situation. Of course,
Speaker 2: there were stories of people blowing up their hands or
Speaker 2: having some sort of injury to their face, but those
Speaker 2: were few and far in between, whereas now they seemed
Speaker 2: to be. It's so common that you can open up
Speaker 2: your social media on the fourth of July and if
Speaker 2: you're following any of these kind of crime app reporting
Speaker 2: pages or local neighborhood pages, whatever it may be, you're
Speaker 2: going to see a story of someone who has injured themselves.
Speaker 2: When we come back, we're going to continue this conversation
Speaker 2: because I realized I'm going a little long. I was
Speaker 2: getting into the weeds of it all, and we're going
Speaker 2: to talk about what experts are saying is considered to
Speaker 2: be the firework capital of the United States, Los Angeles,
Speaker 2: and some ways they say we can possibly quell this
Speaker 2: issue in the future. Some things experts wish we all
Speaker 2: knew about fireworks. So Nikki Kayla we'll talk about your
Speaker 2: experience with fireworks from your respective corners of the world
Speaker 2: when we come back. Kf I AM six forty Live
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Speaker 3: Its Saturdays with Tiffany.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Hi Doriy raoulk I AM six forty Live Everywhere on
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Speaker 3: Tiffany Hobbs here with you.
Speaker 2: It's Saturdays with Tiffany until seven and then Michael Monks
Speaker 2: will be here and he'll have a great show.
Speaker 3: As always.
Speaker 2: We're in our deep dive segment and we're talking about
Speaker 2: why fireworks are just out of control in the City
Speaker 2: of Los Angeles. And if you live outside of the
Speaker 2: City of Los Angeles, and you might also be saying, well,
Speaker 2: fireworks are out of control here too, whether it's Burbank
Speaker 2: or whether you're out there in the Ie or San
Speaker 2: Diego County or wherever it may be. Fireworks are just
Speaker 2: a huge problem in California in general. And that's because
Speaker 2: we typically live in the illegal firework capital of the
Speaker 2: United States. And did you know all fireworks are illegal
Speaker 2: in the City of Los Angeles, even those stands that
Speaker 2: are out there. Yes, those are actually illegal as well,
Speaker 2: but they're so rampant, they're so abundant, that there's just
Speaker 2: not enough law enforcement to respond to all of that.
Speaker 2: You know, they're not going to get every person jaywalking,
Speaker 2: although jaywalking is no longer a crime, but you understand
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, the equivalency. It's just so out of
Speaker 2: control that at this point it's kind of a free
Speaker 2: for all. But where it becomes such a hazard is
Speaker 2: in the fact that these really really powerful DIY fireworks,
Speaker 2: the ones that are practically bombs, that are akin to
Speaker 2: something that you might hear, let's say, if you were
Speaker 2: in war, those are easily attainable just from outside of
Speaker 2: the state, outside of the country. So we are right here,
Speaker 2: we're on the border of where these illegal fireworks can
Speaker 2: be easily bought, and these are professional grade pyrotechnics, they're small,
Speaker 2: and they're easily brought back here. Now, nationwide, the problem
Speaker 2: with fireworks is actually bigger than it's ever been. Last year,
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four, almost fifteen thousand American people were
Speaker 2: treated for firework related injuries, fifteen thousand that could be minor,
Speaker 2: that can be major. The year before and twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: there were just over seven thousand people treated. The number
Speaker 2: jumped just or actually, excuse me, about nine thousand people treated.
Speaker 2: The number jumped that much in one year. Fifteen thousand
Speaker 2: people treated for these injuries related to fireworks in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four. And who's to say that once the metrics
Speaker 2: come back in, those numbers won't reflect for twenty twenty
Speaker 2: five something even higher. So here are five things experts,
Speaker 2: those who handle these professional grade piral technics. These are
Speaker 2: five things they wish you knew about your explosives, the
Speaker 2: ones that Raoul used to have in his backyard. Number one,
Speaker 2: we have the worst air quality in the country on
Speaker 2: the night of July fourth into July fifth, right here
Speaker 2: in La because fireworks actually give off as much air
Speaker 2: pollution as some wildfires. And we know a thing or
Speaker 2: two about wildfires, don't we. You would think that we
Speaker 2: would be smarter about all of this, but again we're not.
Speaker 2: You know, when they raid houses and they take all
Speaker 2: these fireworks, these hundreds of pounds of fireworks that they found,
Speaker 2: you know, in this house or that house or wherever
Speaker 2: it may be, they actually have to dispose of them,
Speaker 2: and they don't just put them in the land, feel
Speaker 2: fill or throw them away, No, they ship them out.
Speaker 2: So let's say they come to your home and they
Speaker 2: get thousands of pounds of fireworks because you just.
Speaker 3: Got it like that.
Speaker 2: Well, taxpayers in California foot the bill for those fireworks
Speaker 2: and any fireworks confiscated to be shipp to places like Ohio, Hawaii,
Speaker 2: and Massachusetts for disposal. So your tax paying dollars are
Speaker 2: going to shipping these fireworks out of California. And that's
Speaker 2: because it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to get
Speaker 2: rid of them. They have to do so in a
Speaker 2: very organized fashion. A couple more kids say they don't
Speaker 2: really want the fireworks, their parents bought them for them,
Speaker 2: which then involves the question of who's this really four
Speaker 2: and kids are saying not us. When kids were asked,
Speaker 2: they're like, no, not us, Our parents wanted them. This
Speaker 2: seems to be, you know, a celebration for parents. You
Speaker 2: hear more about adults being injured or adults handling these
Speaker 2: sorts of things.
Speaker 3: The illegal fireworks.
Speaker 2: Injuries highly common. The most common ones burns. The most
Speaker 2: common firework that produces these burns sparklers. My favorite sparklers
Speaker 2: because you're holding on to them for just a few
Speaker 2: seconds too long, and then boom, you're needing skin grafting
Speaker 2: and surgeries or a hospital stay to tend to your wounds.
Speaker 2: So you definitely have the loss of fingers or major
Speaker 2: issues with limbs, but burns, especially those to the eye,
Speaker 2: are extremely common as well. Experts predict that with the
Speaker 2: World Cup, the Super Bowl, and the Olympics coming, fireworks,
Speaker 2: especially illegal fireworks, have the potential to be significant and
Speaker 2: extremely out of control. So as we prepare for those events,
Speaker 2: as we prepare for July fourth, twenty twenty five, New
Speaker 2: Year's Eve, whatever the celebration may be, the Dodgers winning,
Speaker 2: the Lakers winning, whatever it may be, just keep in
Speaker 2: mind that these things, while fun, are best left to
Speaker 2: the professionals. And I know that falls on deaf ears
Speaker 2: because you're still gonna go out there and you're gonna
Speaker 2: buy your fireworks, but at the very least, be careful
Speaker 2: and bring your damn dog inside so your animals aren't terrorized,
Speaker 2: and think about more than just yourself. All right, let
Speaker 2: me get off my soapbox. When we come back, we're
Speaker 2: gonna talk about why sitting in silence for two hours
Speaker 2: a day can grow your brain and a lot of
Speaker 2: us need that. I think I might need that too.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that and more on the other side
Speaker 2: of the break. It's KFI AM six forty Live Everywhere
Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3: Tiffany Hobbs here with you.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand k if.
Speaker 2: I AM six forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: Tiffany Hobbs here with You Saturdays with Tiffany and thank
Speaker 2: you for your talkbacks. We're getting them. We are sifting
Speaker 2: through them and definitely seeing which ones we want to
Speaker 2: play some of Like we can't verify if you've, you know,
Speaker 2: eaten pizza with the Dali Lama, so we're like, we
Speaker 2: kind of hold off on that one. But it's good
Speaker 2: to know that you guys appreciate his holiness and that
Speaker 2: Maryelle hemming Well Hemingway interview, which is will be available
Speaker 2: on the feature segment section of the website the KFIAM
Speaker 2: six forty dot com website later this evening, definitely tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Make sure you check that out. It was a great
Speaker 2: conversation with Maryelle Hemingway. You know her, You know that
Speaker 2: last name, you know, Maryelle, and you definitely want to
Speaker 2: hear that conversation before we move on. Just to kind
Speaker 2: of extend the last segment a deeper dive segment, I
Speaker 2: wanted to mention that there are some areas that have
Speaker 2: moved from fireworks, the actual explosive firework shows that we
Speaker 2: all grew.
Speaker 3: Up loving, to the drone shows.
Speaker 2: You might have seen a drone show if you go
Speaker 2: to a Dodger game, they regularly have drone shows on
Speaker 2: certain evenings. Drone shows are those light shows using drones
Speaker 2: that project these really cool pictures, very artistic, really interesting,
Speaker 2: very detailed, and it's kind of like have you ever
Speaker 2: watched let's say, a marching band, and like an aerial
Speaker 2: view of a marching band and you see people that
Speaker 2: the band kind of configure themselves into different shapes or
Speaker 2: pictures or even like a large person. It looks like that,
Speaker 2: but in the sky with a bit more technological, technological savvy.
Speaker 2: It's really cool, and it's a way again to kind
Speaker 2: of circumvent the environmental hazards that fireworks do in fact provoke,
Speaker 2: and also the emotional hazards that people like veterans say
Speaker 2: or people with PTSD say, are sparked so to speak,
Speaker 2: by these explosive fireworks shows.
Speaker 3: Okay because people not everybody likes them.
Speaker 2: They're nice to look at, but you know, they do
Speaker 2: come with some serious stuff. So some places that have
Speaker 2: swopped fireworks for drones just did it yesterday and continue
Speaker 2: to do this going forward. San Fernando and Laguna Beach
Speaker 2: both decided to use drones this year. Grand Park in
Speaker 2: downtown LA. They shifted to a drone show. Of course,
Speaker 2: across different neighborhoods. There are drone shows that were present
Speaker 2: San Pedro, the city of San Pedro for their big
Speaker 2: city fireworks show, they went with drones, and probably the
Speaker 2: biggest venue of all, the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, decided
Speaker 2: to do a drone show instead of a fireworks show
Speaker 2: out of respect for the ongoing recovery, I would say
Speaker 2: in Altadena, due to the Altadena fire in January, so
Speaker 2: they went with the drone show. Now, on the flip
Speaker 2: side of that, there have been some places that said,
Speaker 2: oh no, no, now, we're going to continue to go
Speaker 2: with our fireworks show because it's what we have planned.
Speaker 2: And one of those places which is now getting a
Speaker 2: lot of heat, Big Bear Valley, right there over the lake.
Speaker 2: They had a petition that was signed by tens of
Speaker 2: thousands of people urging Big Bear and the Rotary Club
Speaker 2: out there not to have their fireworks show because of
Speaker 2: the Eagle family and other wildlife and veterans, and the
Speaker 2: list goes on, but they went ahead and had it. Also,
Speaker 2: the Beach Club in Santa Monica, which is just steps
Speaker 2: away from the Palisades burn zone, Okay, went ahead with
Speaker 2: their fireworks celebration despite a city wide ban on fireworks
Speaker 2: and growing outrage from environmentalists and people who went through
Speaker 2: the fire. So not everybody's on board with the drone show,
Speaker 2: but more and more each year are shifting to that
Speaker 2: something you might well you know before where we do that.
Speaker 2: I said I was going to come to you board
Speaker 2: up and producer, NICKI. You grew up in an entirely
Speaker 2: different country, right right, correct, correctly, Australia. You are a No,
Speaker 2: you're not Kiwis are New Zealand.
Speaker 7: I'm actually both.
Speaker 3: I'm Keigwe and Australian. So you're key Wee alien.
Speaker 7: Yes, my mom's a Kiwi, so I inherited it through
Speaker 7: her and all my family's in New Zealand.
Speaker 3: But I am Australian.
Speaker 2: All right, So in Australia this is an inherently American
Speaker 2: pastime or tradition. But in Australia, do you guys have
Speaker 2: fireworks for different celebrations.
Speaker 7: Well, we used to because we follow the Commonwealth. So
Speaker 7: we had Guy Fawkes Night, which is it used to
Speaker 7: be November fifth and it was commemorating I think it
Speaker 7: was sixteen sixty six in London when Guy Fawkes tried
Speaker 7: to blow up the Houses of Parliament.
Speaker 3: History.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so we'd commemorate it every year. And then in
Speaker 7: the late eighties or nineties they banned fireworks in Australia
Speaker 7: and I call that was after my grandfather visited from
Speaker 7: New Zealand set off fireworks in the garden and one
Speaker 7: of them flew directly at my brother and said, is
Speaker 7: his sweater on fire?
Speaker 2: Wait, so your family's the reason that the fireworks were banned.
Speaker 7: We are always ground zero in my family.
Speaker 2: You and Raoul you just rabble rousers, trouble makers, just
Speaker 2: really just you know, defy in the odds right here.
Speaker 3: Go to watch out for us.
Speaker 7: Convict.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you for that.
Speaker 2: I was just curious because you know, fireworks again are
Speaker 2: inextricably linked to I think Los Angeles. Everyone kind of
Speaker 2: points here, and studies do say that we do, in
Speaker 2: fact have more injuries here in California than in anywhere else.
Speaker 2: But I was wondering what it might be like there
Speaker 2: in Australia. And we do know now that Nikki is
Speaker 2: a convict or at least comes from a family of convicts,
Speaker 2: and she doesn't have the mic now, so she can't
Speaker 2: dispel that myth.
Speaker 3: We'll just run with it. But before we go to break.
Speaker 2: Did you know that if you sit in silence for
Speaker 2: two hours per day that can trigger new brain cell growth?
Speaker 2: Every parent and every teacher just went duh, right, because
Speaker 2: everyone knows if you've ever been around a lot of stimulation,
Speaker 2: auditory stimulation, just how much of a reprieve absolute silence
Speaker 2: can be. Well, scientists have discovered that two hours a
Speaker 2: day of silence can in fact grow new brain cells.
Speaker 2: It's called neurogenesis, or the creation of neurons, which occur
Speaker 2: during not during intense learning or strenuous mental tasks, no,
Speaker 2: during stillness. So when you're being still and you're just
Speaker 2: kind of staring into the oblivion or doing nothing, and
Speaker 2: someone's telling you that you need to do something, your
Speaker 2: brain is actually doing a lot. Absolutely, absolutely, that's good news.
Speaker 2: This comes from a twenty thirteen study led by a
Speaker 2: neuroscientist out of Duke University. Was originally designed to observe
Speaker 2: how different sounds affect the brain, but it actually revealed
Speaker 2: that the best thing for the brain was in fact silence.
Speaker 2: And at first mice worthy controlled group, as they often are.
Speaker 2: Sadly yes, but in this case mice were subjected to
Speaker 2: different auditory environments, different types of music, calls, sounds, but
Speaker 2: the silence served as the control and resulted in a significant,
Speaker 2: lasting increase in fully developed neurons. It affects the part
Speaker 2: of the brain that's critical for memory formation, learning and
Speaker 2: emotional processing because silence. The theory says that in the
Speaker 2: absence of external noise, the brain becomes more alert. When
Speaker 2: there's no noise, your brain becomes more alert. So when
Speaker 2: you're not doing things that are disrupting that, then you
Speaker 2: are in fact building up on those neurons. Your brain
Speaker 2: is anything but idle. It's reorganizing, consolidating information, and potentially
Speaker 2: laying the groundwork for new cell development. So at some
Speaker 2: point this weekend, if you can carve out two hours
Speaker 2: a day. Every parent's like, try and carve out two
Speaker 2: hours a day of silence so you can grow your brain.
Speaker 2: When we come back, we're going to talk about a
Speaker 2: group of people who some say need to grow their brain,
Speaker 2: and that's Gen Z. Because a lot of people are
Speaker 2: complaining that Generation Z, those young people as they work
Speaker 2: in the service industry, that they don't know what they're
Speaker 2: doing and that they're not greeting customers the way they
Speaker 2: should be greeted.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about that and wrap this show up.
Speaker 2: On the other side of the braak, It's KFI AM
Speaker 2: six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand KFI.
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Speaker 2: Hobbs here with you for one more segment on this
Speaker 2: glorious hopefully all finger having Saturday post fourth of July,
Speaker 2: and this fourth of July was absolutely absurd given all
Speaker 2: the things I saw flood through social media. First, let's
Speaker 2: give a major shout out to Martha Kandarou. She's a
Speaker 2: big listener of KFI and we appreciate you. Martha We
Speaker 2: hope you are doing well. Please keep listening. Hit the
Speaker 2: talk back at some point so we can hear you
Speaker 2: if you want to get your voice on the air,
Speaker 2: But regardless, thank you for listening and all of you
Speaker 2: who have been listening. We also have a talkback addressing
Speaker 2: Maryel Hemingway, who we had on at five thirty. Great conversation.
Speaker 2: Make sure you listen to that on featured segments a
Speaker 2: little bit later this evening or tomorrow morning, whenever you
Speaker 2: have some time. It was wonderful, can we hear it?
Speaker 3: Raoul?
Speaker 6: I remember Mary L. Henningway some sober dinner that was
Speaker 6: held three years ago, and I remember her very clearly,
Speaker 6: and she was very inspirational. Yeah, thank you, have a
Speaker 6: great time.
Speaker 2: Thank you, And yeah, she's Maryelle's's totally inspirational.
Speaker 3: That's the that's the probably the best word.
Speaker 2: There are many words you can use a describer, but
Speaker 2: inspirational is certainly at the top.
Speaker 3: And she's just available.
Speaker 2: So make sure you go to Maryelle Hemingway her on Facebook,
Speaker 2: She's Mariel Hemingway. On Instagram, she's at Mariel Hemingway. You
Speaker 2: can talk to her right there. She's totally available to you.
Speaker 2: She sees you as not just a fan and we're
Speaker 2: all fans, but as a friend, and she wants to
Speaker 2: help you. She has a new retreat and she wants
Speaker 2: people to get involved in that to help guide them
Speaker 2: through their own mental health challenges. How selfless, How selfless.
Speaker 2: So shout out to Maryelle, Shout out to Martha Canderu,
Speaker 2: Shout out to all of you who have been listening.
Speaker 2: It's been a great show. But before we go, let's
Speaker 2: make sure that we give a que little update about
Speaker 2: some stories that we've been following.
Speaker 3: Some top stories.
Speaker 2: There was an officer's shot out here in South LA
Speaker 2: just around Martin Luther King Boulevard and Western Avenue, just
Speaker 2: north of MLK Boulevard at MLK Park. Actually an officer
Speaker 2: involves shooting in which the officer was hit.
Speaker 3: He was taken too. I say he because that's what's
Speaker 3: being said.
Speaker 2: He was taken to a local hospital where he is
Speaker 2: in stable conditions. So that is great news. And the
Speaker 2: suspect was arrested. No motive has been released, no description
Speaker 2: or names yet as well, but we do know that
Speaker 2: that officer is in stable conditions, So prayers out for
Speaker 2: that person. And then of course we're following what's going
Speaker 2: on in Texas with these massive one in one hundred years,
Speaker 2: you know events, this massive flood. The number has risen
Speaker 2: since we've been on air. I think when we started
Speaker 2: we were in the forties of people who were confirmed deceased,
Speaker 2: and now that number is at fifty, at least fifty
Speaker 2: death dead and at least twenty nine missing, many of
Speaker 2: whom are children, many of whom are reported to have
Speaker 2: been attendees at a summer camp, a Christian camp. At
Speaker 2: least fifty dead, including fifteen children, and the visuals coming
Speaker 2: off of CNN are just.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: It's just catastrophic, catastrophic, and they're calling it a once
Speaker 2: in a generational rain event, a terrible storm that caused
Speaker 2: this flooding at the Guadalupe River there in Texas. So
Speaker 2: you'll continue to hear updates from our KFI newsroom about that,
Speaker 2: and the officer involves shooting throughout the evening. Lastly, before
Speaker 2: we get to Michael Monks, before we throw it to
Speaker 2: his show, the gin Z gay, these gaze, the generation
Speaker 2: Z gaze, how they're looking at you?
Speaker 3: Generation Z.
Speaker 2: These young service workers are being reported to refuse to
Speaker 2: greet customers you go into a Starbucks, you go into
Speaker 2: wherever it is you're shopping, and you have a young
Speaker 2: person there. And our older generations, of which I now
Speaker 2: consider myself to be a part of, because I'm far
Speaker 2: away from Generation Z, at least in my mind, we
Speaker 2: are being set off by the lack of eye contact
Speaker 2: from these younger service workers. People are saying you walk
Speaker 2: up to a front desk or a cashier and you're
Speaker 2: met with what's being described as a silent stare aka
Speaker 2: the gin Z gaze. This is being talked about all
Speaker 2: over social media. There's one post that has almost two
Speaker 2: million views where someone says they are so sick of
Speaker 2: the new style of customer service where people just stare
Speaker 2: at you when you walk up to the counter or
Speaker 2: service desk.
Speaker 3: People are saying they're sick of it. They want interaction.
Speaker 2: They want you to say good morning or hello, or
Speaker 2: what might you like instead of just being stared at.
Speaker 3: And I can say I know that to be true.
Speaker 2: It's interesting you walk into let's say, a Starbucks, and
Speaker 2: you know they have to greet you, that's a part
Speaker 2: of their contract, I think, but you know, you go
Speaker 2: there and they just these young kids, they really do
Speaker 2: they just look at you, and now you're looking at
Speaker 2: each other, and it's almost like osmosis, like they expect
Speaker 2: you to just insert into their brain what it is
Speaker 2: you want. Now you're just staring at each other, and
Speaker 2: all that valuable time is wasted. So there's something going
Speaker 2: on with the young people and the young people and
Speaker 2: their training in the service industry. I wonder if they're
Speaker 2: practicing that two hours of silence while they're on the job.
Speaker 3: It's been a blast.
Speaker 2: I'll be here tomorrow for Chris Merrill sitting in from
Speaker 2: four to seven, so make sure you listen in then
Speaker 2: and as always, hit that talk back feature. Let us
Speaker 2: know what you thought of today's show, what's on your mind,
Speaker 2: how you spent the fourth and if we couldn't get
Speaker 2: to it today, then maybe we'll try to play some tomorrow. See,
Speaker 2: I'll be here from four to seven, so you have
Speaker 2: plenty of opportunities to chime on in. Thanks for listening again.
Speaker 2: Shout out to Martha Kangaroo. We see you girl over
Speaker 2: there listening from your corner of the world. Thank you
Speaker 2: so much, and all of you have a wonderful day.
Speaker 2: Don't pop fireworks. Let people sleep in peace. Tonight, all right,
Speaker 2: I'll see you here tomorrow from four to seven. I
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